Fig. 2.

Comparison between performance of empiricIST and ordinary least square regression with varying number of time points sampled. We display a mean square error (MSE), b size of the credibility interval (CI), and c the proportion the true growth rate contained in the CI. As shown, empiricIST yields an equal or lower MSE than OLS regression, particularly as the number of sampled time points increases. Furthermore, empiricIST outperforms the OLS regression regarding the size of the CI and at capturing the true growth rate, even when sampling a small number of time points